11/15/2025
TWO YEARS. ZERO PROGRESS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
I’ve reached a point where staying quiet is no longer helping anyone — not the animals, not the community, and certainly not the truth.
For two years, we have been given excuse after excuse.
Two years of delays.
Two years of shifting answers.
Two years of “we’re working on it” with nothing to show for it.
Let’s lay out the facts.
The barn was completed on July 3rd.
BAAB submitted the MOU in May.
Yet we waited until September — four months — just to get a signature allowing us to legally help the animals already sitting in unacceptable conditions.
And that delay is only one example of what we’ve been dealing with.
When BAAB donated $50,000, we were told immediately it “wasn’t enough.”
But the City never even contacted the contractor — the same contractor who donated all the labor.
Had they made a single phone call, they would have known:
The shelter structure cost $34,000.
Now we’re being told there isn’t enough money for kennels.
More delays.
More excuses.
More reasons why progress “can’t happen yet.”
Meanwhile, BAAB has kept every commitment we made:
✔️ All dogs spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped (last two this month after heat cycles).
✔️ Heartworm prevention started for every dog.
✔️ Daily care, supplies, and medical costs handled immediately.
✔️ Volunteers and industry partners ready to help.
We move fast because we know what’s at stake.
And despite that, I have been attacked from every angle — even personally — for trying to do the right thing. All I have ever done is try to help. But my biggest fear from day one has now proven true:
The City has a habit of kicking the can down the road — and the animals are the ones paying the price.
And here’s something that has bothered me for nearly two years:
The Mayor told me,
“We’re the government — we move slow.”
No.
YOU are the government. And you move at the pace WE determine, because YOU work for the people.
I am extremely easy to work with, but I will not tolerate being patronized.
Do what you say and say what you do.
It’s that simple.
On Tuesday night, I will be addressing City Council and laying out the full timeline — the delays, the excuses, the lack of communication, and the impact this has had on living, breathing animals who deserve far better.
BAAB is ready.
The community is ready.
Industry partners are ready.
The only one who isn’t — and hasn’t been for two years — is the City.
And I’m done accepting that.
— Leigh Ann
